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Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Lewisham Union, Kent, 1861

In 1861, the Poor Law Board published a return of the name every adult pauper who had been a workhouse inmate for a continuous period of five years or more, together with the duration of their residence (in years and months), the reason for it, and whether they had been brought up in a District or separate Workhouse School. It was noted that the term 'District School' had been widely misinterpreted by respondents as meaning any school in the local area, such as a national or private school, and that there was only one instance in the whole report of an inmate actually having been in such a school.

NameYrsms.ReasonSchool
John Bailey400Epilepsyno.
George Worster180Infirmityno.
Matthias Turpin140dittono.
John Hawkins.230Idiocyno.
Mary Deane250Infirmityno.
Emma Penton120dittono.
Mary Whitman100dittono.
Joseph Lowe100dittono.
James Martin80dittono.
Ann Hove160Inability to support herself andthree illegitimate childrenno.
William Hammond80Infirmityno.
William Berryman60dittono.
Thomas Kelley60dittono.
John. Fowle50dittono.
George Wallace60dittono.
Ann Beal910dittono.
Susan Baker200Idiocyno.
Sarah Newman.170Infirmityno.
Hannah Perkins70dittono.
Eliza Hobbs50dittono.
Susanna Hobbs.50dittono.
Ann Shorter70dittono.
Elizabeth Cook100dittono.
Stephen Green110dittono.
George Harrison170dittono.
Thomas Lindsay230Infirmityno.
Robert Moore150dittono.
Thomas Rawlings130dittono.
Priscilla Hopwood170dittono.
Mary Williams150dittono.
Sarah Groves160dittono.
Ruth Coleman70dittono.
James Price110dittono.
Elizabeth Dunk100dittono.
Lazarus Pantany130dittono.

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